Lancelot Hogben Quotes

#1. This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

Lancelot Hogben

#2. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

#3. Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Dick Bruna

#5. Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.

Stephen King

#6. I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Heikki Kovalainen

#7. Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

Lancelot Hogben

#8. Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language.

Neel Mukherjee

#9. There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

Lancelot Hogben

#10. This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.

Lancelot Hogben

#12. It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'

Lancelot Hogben

#13. There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

Lancelot Hogben

#14. Jesus is with me. I have nothing to fear.

Pier Giorgio Frassati

#15. When I go to a show, all I really want is to hear a performance that sounds legitimate, and not just going through the motions. I'm not sure any amount of jumping up and down really persuades me in either direction.

Dan Bejar

#16. Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Simone Weil

#17. Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Zhang Yimou

#18. Mathematics is the language of size.

Lancelot Hogben